fogy

Example Sentences

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Consequently, throughout the 1970s and ’80s Wilson was viewed as a Tory, a young fogy.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

Her first special was a portrait of a young fogy, but this new one zeros in on her self-protective cynicism and exaggerates it until it’s an absurd cartoon.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2022

I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2018

Bellow was aware that his repeated insistence on our “state of radical distraction” made him sound, at times, like a fogy, a turkey gobbling at the inanities of the young.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2015

"What a musty old fogy he would be, by the time he had gone half through!" said Judy.

From Trading by Warner, Susan